Month: June 2025

Installation view of Fictions of Display, June 29, 2025–January 4, 2026 at MOCA Grand Avenue. Courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Photo by Jeff McLane.

Fictions of Display is an exhibition at MOCA that explores the intersections of theater, performance, and visual art within the museum context. Inspired by Claes Oldenburg’s 1962 statement questioning the boundaries between theater and visual arts, the exhibition highlights how objects are not just displayed but also staged and performed.

At its center are works from Oldenburg’s The Store (1961–62), where he created and sold replicas of everyday goods, setting the tone for broader reflections on presentation and circulation. The exhibition also features archival materials from the Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen papers, loaned by the Getty Research Institute.

In addition to iconic works, Fictions of Display includes new acquisitions and never-before-shown pieces, such as a painting by avant-garde theater director Tadeusz Kantor and a video installation by Catherine Sullivan that blends theater, film, and visual art. A live performance by Tania Pérez Córdova subtly integrates a human presence into the gallery space, as a performer quietly walks among visitors, mirroring an object on display.

Featured artists: Eleanor Antin, ASCO, Ana Barrado, Math Bass, Joseph Beuys, Mark Bradford, Brassaï, Nancy Brooks Brody, Colette, Fiona Connor, Tania Pérez Córdova, Guy de Cointet, Raúl De Nieves, Lukas Duwenhögger, Thomas Eggerer, Victor Estrada, VALIE EXPORT, Ali Eyal, Peter Fischli, Dan Flavin, Robert Gober, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Félix González-Torres, Joe Goode, Dan Graham, Yaron Michael Hakim, Lyle Ashton Harris, Evan Holloway, Christian Holstad, Rebecca Horn, Roni Horn, Donald Judd, Brian Jungen, Tadeusz Kantor, Mike Kelley, Toba Khedoori, Martin Kippenberger, Terence Koh, Louise Lawler, An-My Lê, William Leavitt, Charles LeDray, Nikki S. Lee, Sherrie Levine, Los Carpinteros, Paul McCarthy, Steve McQueen, Ana Mendieta, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Senga Nengudi, Kayode Ojo, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Silke Otto-Knapp, Roxy Paine, Giuseppe Penone, Sondra Perry, Julia Phillips, Sigmar Polke, Monique Prieto, Reynaldo Rivera, Beverly Semmes, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Catherine Sullivan, Atsuko Tanaka, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cosima von Bonin, Marnie Weber, Johanna Went, Pae White, Hannah Wilke.

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Vue d’exposition / Installation view Vivre, 2025, Memento, Auch/FR.
Production : MEMENTO-Espace départemental d’art contemporain-
Crédit photo : Cyril Boixel

In the context of contemporary issues, how do we reaffirm our relationship with life, nature and the city, and how do we prioritise happiness?

The exhibition VIVRE establishes a close relationship with MEMENTO, anchoring itself in its architecture and soul, while opening it up to current issues. It highlights impermanence, transformation and rebirth.

By bringing together altruistic, committed and experimental approaches, the exhibition reaffirms MEMENTO as a territory of shared emotions, a space for reflection on the way we inhabit the world.

VIVRE is conceived as a space for encounters and interactions, where the works build bridges between the intimate and the collective. In an evolving, immersive format, the exhibition sheds light on our relationship with others and with living things, embracing the complexity, fragility and tensions of our times.

By bringing together a wide range of artistic disciplines – painting, sculpture, installation, performance and digital art – VIVRE is a vibrant act in which art explores the many ways in which we exist.

Artists : CARLOS AIRES, MICHEL BLAZY, ALI CHERRI, CÉDRIX CRESPEL, DEMOCRACIA, SEBASTIAN KITE, JÉRÔME SOUILLOT

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Vue d’exposition / Installation view, Richard Fauguet. Blue Oyster Cult…, Le Portique, Le Havre, 2025.
Photo © Le Portique

Le Portique presents the exhibition Blue Oyster Cult…

If the title is a reference to the legendary 70s American band, also known by the acronym BÖC, it also evokes one of Richard Fauguet’s favorite materials… the oyster shell. The artist’s work is expressed in a variety of media: drawings, collages, rubbings, sculptures and more. Nourished by art history and subculture, his work delights in mixing references borrowed from various worlds, creating a singular and often offbeat dialogue. His vast and original output is reflected in this exhibition in Le Havre.

“I start from the familiar to move things around and produce rapid associations that give rise to collages. This produces pieces, sculptures, drawings or a collection of things that may seem formally quite different from one another, but in reality are not so different.”

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Details « Gobbler » de Caroline Achaintre, 2025, hand tufted wool, 350 x 440 cm.

Caroline Achaintre, Gobbler, 2025, Art Basel Unlimited, 2025. Photo: Andreas Zimmermann. Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Art : Concept, and von Bartha.

Art : Concept is pleased to present Gobbler by Caroline Achaintre, in collaboration with von Bartha, at this year’s Unlimited sector by Art Basel.

Caroline Achaintre’s work oscillates between object and subject, evoking a powerful presence that explores the concept of the uncanny. She draws inspiration from multiple references such as European carnival traditions, futurist and postmodern museum architecture, science fiction, prehistoric art, and animism (the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence). “I process anything that triggers my imagination,” says Achaintre, “seeking the fantastical and superimposed.”

Writer Anaël Pigeat recently met Achaintre at the Young V&A in London to discuss her work and her fascination for masks and tapestry. You can read the full article here.

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Wednesday June 25, follow live the installation of Nina Childress at the Académie des beaux-arts. The ceremony will be broadcast from 3 pm on the Academy’s YouTube channel.

🌿 Nina Childress was elected on Wednesday March 27, 2024 to chair XI of the painting section, previously occupied by Arnaud d’Hauterives (1933-2018). She will be installed by her colleague Catherine Meurisse, member of the engraving and drawing section.

Photo: Kathy Le Sant